>>About that time, if I were the coach, I would begin using the time to train (in real-time) some more difficult plays and practice on those with a “real opponent”... That would have been interesting.
You know..., like, “we’ve been trying out this new play, so why don’t we give it a try here...” and so on..., with a number of lesser used plays...<<
I think that would have been a great idea! I wonder if they actually did that.
From what I read, he did back off playing hard against the opponents and put in the ones on the bench, and changed things a little bit, but not to that extent that I was saying, though. Perhaps he thought that what he did — to back off — was enough....